VS2010 DB Project Deploy Error SQL01268 Directory Lookup Failed

Question

My VS2010 database deploy is failing on my build server, which has SQL Server 2008 R2 installed on it. Here's the output that's relevant:

Creating Acme.Database...

D:\TeamCity\BuildAgent\Work\da2fc5ebd5805d44\src\Acme.Database\sql\Acme.Database.sql(30,0): Error SQL01268: .Net SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 5133, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Directory lookup for the file "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server**MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER**\MSSQL\DATA\Acme_Database_log.ldf" failed with the operating system error 3(The system cannot find the path specified.).

D:\TeamCity\BuildAgent\Work\da2fc5ebd5805d44\src\Acme.Database\sql\Acme.Database.sql(30,0): Error SQL01268: .Net SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 1802, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created. Check related errors.

An error occurred while the batch was being executed.

The actual path is here:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server**MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER**\MSSQL\DATA\Acme_Database.mdf

The only reference to the path I could find in the database project was in the root folder, a file called:

PRIMARY.Acme_Database.sqlfile.sql

It includes an ALTER DATABASE statement that I changed to use the _50 path, but this did not fix the issue.

I'm not sure why the db project needs to know where the actual database MDF file is located in any case - I would have thought it could just connect to it vis TSQL, but in any case I can't get the project to deploy with this error and would appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Turns out if you specify a "file" in Schema Objects\Database Level Objects\Storage\Files (use Add Item, File) the values specified in the path override those looked up from the Server. If you must specify them use the variables from sqlcmdvariables $(DefaultdataPath)$(Databasename) to fill things out.

Answer 2

Take a look at the default file path on the server itself.

Screencast: http://screencast.com/t/OWM5ODFjZj

The fact that you don't have a path specified could likely be the issue.

[Update] The reason I suggest this is that during the creation of the deployment script, if you have not specified the settings in the Project Settings -> Deployment tab, the DefaultDataPath is looked up from the target server's path.

Answer 3

I don't know anything about TeamCity really so this may be a stupid question, but how are you doing the deployment? It looks like the MSBuild deploy task for a DB project can take a property that gives the data path:

http://www.codewrecks.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/06/deploy-a-database-project-with-tfs-build/

Can you set the path that way?

Answer 4

I had the same error, but a different solution. For me everything was correct (as far as I can tell), but the generated deploy script set the path variables before the databasename variable - resulting in a reference to a variable that did not exist. I updated Database.sqlcmdvars to hardcode the database name value - not best practice, but a sufficient workaround for my needs.